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Youth
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they might drop you for it. [With Logan Pearsall Smith]Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV. [Cf. Alfred North Whitehead]
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. [George MacDonald]
Not yet hardened, many young die good. [With Nathaniel Hawthorne and Oliver Herford]
The American ideal is youth - handsome, empty youth. [Henry Miller]
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. [Quentin Crisp]
Young and happy ones are news. If they aren't up to something, that might be called news too. [With Kenneth Rexroth]
Old people can get tremendously nervous from it, and frauds. [With Wallace Stevens]
When older men declare war, youths are trained to fight and die. [With Herbert Hoover]
An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only. [With Marcus T. Cicero]
If youth but knew and age but could - but what? [With Henri Estienne]
Youth is not merely a question of years. [Natalie Clifford Barney]
The child accepts child life is real life. [With George Orwell]
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. [Benjamin Disraeli]
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour. [Samuel Johnson]
Youth of assumed personalities and disguises may be called the time of the sincerely insincere. [With V. S. Pritchett]
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